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"The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants."
"Go into the sunshine and be happy with what you see."
"I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven."
"The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose."
"Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!"
"I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think."
"If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has."
"Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another."
"All wisdom is not new wisdom."
"He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom."
"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors"
"I love to learn but I do not want to be taught"
"During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened."
"No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt."
"Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable."
"We build dwellings and thereafter they build us."
"It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging."
"Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself."
"I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest."
"The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age."